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From: salmi@finsun.csc.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: humanitarian request
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Date: 11 Nov 90 13:53:08 GMT
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In article <1381@manta.NOSC.MIL> north@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Mark H. North) writes:
>In article <26678.273c16eb@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> petrino@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>
>>We would appreciate your responding to the request of Craig Shergold who
>>is a seven year old boy with an inoperable tumor on his brain.
... much deleted ..

>DON'T DO THIS. The kid himself said he doesn't want to see another
>goddamn postcard as long as he lives. Which may be quite a while since
>last I heard he was in remission and Ok. Petrino get a clue -- if you're
>not a regular on the net don't post something like this until you know
>what's going on. If I see this post on another newsgroup I swear I'll fill
>your mailbox so full of junk your fingers will rot off trying to hit 'n'
>fast enough.

Think before you take any retaliatory action.  On top of hurting the
sites along the feed, we may end up being had twice.  Remember that
hoaxes often come from forged or stolen addresses.  At worst your
action may just end up doubling the effect of a stupid hoax.  Let's
rather hope that the appropriate system managers take a note of
this. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun